If the conclusion is that there's a bug here, could someone distil the example into a ticket?
Thanks
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Ben
| Gamari
| Sent: 23 November 2017 15:20
| To: Yuras Shumovich ; ghc-devs
| Subject: Re: Can strict ST break referential transparency?
|
| Yuras Shumovich writes:
|
| > Hello,
| >
| Hello,
|
| Sorry for the late reply; this required a bit of reflection. The
| invariants surrounding the suspension of ST computations is a rather
| delicate and poorly documented area.
|
| I believe the asynchronous exception case which you point out is
| precisely #13615. The solution there was, as David suggests, ensure that
| no resulting thunk could be entered more than once by a very strict
| blackholing protocol. Note that this isn't normal "eager" blackholing
| protocol, which still might allow multiple entrancy. It's rather a more
| strict variant, requiring two atomic operations.
|
| I can't be certain that there aren't more cases like this, but I suspect
| not since most asynchronous suspensions where the resulting thunk might
| "leak" back into the program go through the raiseAsync codepath that was
| fixed in #13615.
|
| Cheers,
|
| - ben
